Submission + - A third of the internet under DoS attack in 2 years.
doom writes: Over a two year period, a third of the IPv4 address space
has experienced some sort of DoS attack, though the researchers
who've ascertained this suspect that this is an underestimate.
This is from a story at Science Daily reporting on a study recently presented in London at the Internet Measurement Conference.
This is from a story at Science Daily reporting on a study recently presented in London at the Internet Measurement Conference.
As might be expected, more than a quarter of the targeted addresses in the study came in the United States, the nation with the most internet addresses in the world. Japan, with the third most internet addresses, ranks anywhere from 14th to 25th for the number of DoS attacks, indicating a relatively safe nation for DoS attacks, while Russia is a prime example of a country that ranks higher than estimates for internet space usage, suggesting a relatively dangerous country for these attacks.
The study itself (Mattijs Jonker et. al.) states:
On average, on a single day, about 3% of all Web sites were involved in attacks (i.e., by being hosted on targeted IP addresses).
